Following decades of social, political and economic insecurity marked by conflict, famine, regime change, and land redistribution, in the late 1990’s the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) embarked on an ambitious program to document and register lands held by rural households.
Every two months we select news articles curated on our website to bring you analysis of emerging issues and trends. In this issue we feature reports from South Africa, the DRC and Zimbabwe while also reviewing continent-wide analysis of the impacts of climate change and agricultural investment.
The India Land and Development Conference (ILDC) 2024 is a premier annual gathering that brings together a diverse range of land sector stakeholders, including policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and community leaders, from India and the Global South.
The 8th India Land and Development Conference (ILDC) convened a wide spectrum of stakeholders—researchers, policymakers, civil society actors, private sector leaders, and grassroots representatives—to critically examine the evolving landscape of land governance in India.
Climatewash: The World Bank’s Fresh Offensive on Land Rights reveals how the Bank is appropriating climate commitments made at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to justify its multibillion-dollar initiative to “formalize” land tenure across the Global South.
La edición del Mundo Indígena 2025 documenta los desarrollos que los Pueblos Indígenas han experimentado a lo largo de 2024 e incluye un enfoque especial sobre la juventud indígena.
Los 76 informes nacionales, regionales e internacionales incluidos en esta edición ofrecen una actualización exhaustiva de la situación actual de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas en todo el mundo.
Since UNFCCC CoP29 in November 2024 and the nominal approval of Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, the regulatory landscape has been rapidly changing.
A fully operational Article 6 offers countries a powerful tool to scale up mitigation efforts to achieve their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). If implemented right, Article 6 will help channel much-needed climate finance – both public and private - to developing countries, enabling meaningful investments in mitigation activities. That said, the process does not end here.
As the world races to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, the role of carbon markets remains deeply contested. Yet the nuances of ‘carbon rights’ — which generally refer to the rights “to benefit from sequestered carbon and/ or reduced greenhouse gas emissions”1 — remain underexamined.